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[ArcaneKnite]

So I've been putting a build together for a while now that was originally intended for a pure Windows gaming PC, but after digging around on the interwebs, I found out that my mobo, cpu and graphics card are actually quite compatible for doing a hackintosh build, so I figured what the heck. I'm not planning to use OSX as my main OS, but it's just for shits and messing around since I've never personally owned a Mac before.

I got a few questions regarding installing OSX on a PC after doing some research.

I noticed that I will have to make changes to my BIOS to get the most of my Hackintosh. I do not plan to use the Mac OSX as my main partition, as I plan to dualboot into Windows 7. Will these BIOS changes negatively impact me when I use Windows 7? And if so, is there any way to get around it?

Lastly, I'm not sure how these DSDT files work. Do they change the ACPI settings on my BIOS, or does the bootloader use the new DSDT file that I downloaded instead of the vanilla BIOS? If it is the first, then again I have to ask if this is work against me when I use Windows 7, would there be any way to get around this if it does.

Any help would be appreciated, thanks in advance.

[Slugsnack]

which bios changes were you told to change ? and i will tell you whether those will affect your win7 machine.

last time i checked you can do it by finding the right build for your hardware and burning that then installing it. that's the theory. unfortunately you'll encounter all sorts of shit potentially (or that is my experience). i had 5 different machines last summer, 2 laptops and 3 desktops. i didn't successfully install a usable mac on any of them. there was always some issue. like it boots up first time then never again, gets stuck on boot screen, refuses to install, no network drivers allowed. unless you have a lot of time or you happen to get lucky, i'd say it's not worth it. just buy a mac instead

it's even worse you're doing it for interest and fun. it's frustrating and infuriating to spend hours on shit and not have it work. at least for me, those hours are expensive, precious and not that common. i don't wanna have to worry about not being able to install shit because my hackintosh isn't legit, or that i can't update, can't access internet, can't do something, can't do something else. why go through all that when i can throw a few thousand pounds out there and rid myself of all that hassle

[ArcaneKnite]

[FullyAwesome]

after playing around for quite a while a simple retail disc + this guide seemed to work for my i5/p55 build. after having a working install on a separate disk i wanted to install OSX to an already partitioned MBR drive so i followed part B and C of this guide.

and my font was a bit blurry so i followed this guide.

and then i just modded by Grub config to chainload to Chameleon (X is the partition number):